"severally" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈsɛv(ə)ɹəli/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-severally.wav
Etymology: From several + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|several|ly}} several + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} severally (not comparable)
  1. separately Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-severally-en-adv-3LFmHN7c
  2. (Africa) Several times, repeatedly Tags: Africa, not-comparable Synonyms (repeatedly): again and again, over and over, over and over again, time and again
    Sense id: en-severally-en-adv-eVetvmdx Categories (other): African English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100 Disambiguation of 'repeatedly': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: jointly and severally
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          "ref": "c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 85, column 1:",
          "text": "I will diſpatch you ſeuerally. You to Lord Lucius, to Lord Lucullus you, I hunted with his Honor to-day; [...]",
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:8–11:",
          "text": "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.",
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          "ref": "1912, James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, New York: MacMillan, published 1926, Book V, p. 229:",
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 162:",
          "text": "As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.",
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          "text": "It tells them that those rules can be broken; and certainly they will break them, not once or twice but severally.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 29, Nigeria Today:",
          "text": "It was at the point of confronting Alaba, who had been warned severally along with other tenants, that Ogunyemi met her demise.",
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